Host Pages Underneath One File in PHP

Question

Ok now I've seen this used on multiple sites but never actually seen how it is done. How do people host pages under a PHP file?

Example:

http://www.website.com/index.php/about

I've seen examples that show you how to do things like this:

http://www.website.com/?id=4

But that is not what I want to do, I want to do the top one but I have searched all over and so far I can't find anything relating to it. If anyone could help that would be much appreciated and also how would you do the HTACCESS for it to be:

http://www.website.com/about

Any and all help is appreciated thanks in advance!

Just Google "friendly urls php htaccess" and you'll have everything you need. — sjagr, Feb 07 '15 at 04:13
possible duplicate of [How can I create friendly URLs with .htaccess?](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3033407/how-can-i-create-friendly-urls-with-htaccess) — sjagr, Feb 07 '15 at 04:14

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 07 '15 at 04:40

Your raw URL needs to be strutured with a querystring like this:

http://www.website.com/index.php?p=about

And your index.php file has to have a handler, something like this:

$page_to_show = filter_input(INPUT_GET, 'p', FILTER_SANITIZE_STRING, FILTER_FLAG_STRIP_LOW, FILTER_FLAG_STRIP_HIGH);
if ('about' === strtolower($page_to_show)) {
   show_about_page();
}

Finally, you'll need to be running Apache as your web server, with mod_rewrite installed. You'll need to add this to your .htaccess file:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^([^/]*)$ /index.php?p=$1 [L]

This will allow your script to show the about page if a user enters:

http://www.website.com/about

Host Pages Underneath One File in PHP

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